Quotation Explorer - 'Brother'

And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together - Billy Joel
Let us even bid our dearest friends farewell, and defy them, saying, "Who are you? Unhand me: I will be dependent no more." Ah! seest thou not, O brother, that thus we part only to meet again on a higher platform, and only be more each other's, because we are more our own? - Ralph Waldo Emerson
But try to remember that a good man can never die. You will see your brother many times again-in the streets, at home, in all the places of the town. The person of a man may go, but the best part of him stays. It stays forever. - William Saroyan
We will find true peace only when we learn to see that there is no difference among ourselves, realize that we are different manifestations of one, and we love each other as brother and sister. - Debasish Mridha
I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward
An editor should have a pimp for a brother, so he'd have someone to look up to. - Gene Fowler
You are my brother. You are my sister. We are one human family. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. - Voltaire
So Lightning says to Mud,What would happen if I struck your blood?And Mud says, Brother, It would hurt, And make me the motherOf every living thing.But, Fire Boy, you ain’t lifting my grass skirtUntil you burn me a ring. - Sherman Alexie
Matty just rolled his eyes and walked over to his older brother. "Why is it when everyone thinks they're on their death bed, they suddenly find Jesus?"Jayne shrugged and replied, "Because that's where he likes to hang out? - Nonjon
My whore of a brother has done it again." "Then, as always, orders me to clean up the mess." "I think I hate him." Poseidon to his brother, Zeus. - Yelle Hughes
I have yet to see a genius or a hero who, if stuck with a burning match, would feel less pain than his undistinguished average brother. - Ayn Rand
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. - Artemus Ward
If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison
Big Brother is watching you. - George Orwell
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, _Homo ventrambulans_. - Ambrose Bierce
How can I use these [romantic] desires to love him, to serve him as a brother in Christ... - Chris Damian
Fear is the brother of hate. - Larry Niven
You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother. - Darnell Lamont Walker
My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day? - Nora Roberts
I think people that have a brother or sister don't realize how lucky they are. Sure, they fight a lot, but to know that there's always somebody there, somebody that's family. - Trey Parker and Matt Stone
No greater love hath a man than he lay down his life for his brother. Not for millions, .. not for glory, not for fame. For one person, .. in the dark .. where no one will ever know .. or see.
Stripped of its arrogance, its desire to make off with half of the patrimony and never be seen again, history belongs at the family table. If theology, the older brother, pretends not to need or notice him it will be a sign that he has forgotten, after all, who his father is. - N.T. Wright
Starting a business with brother either ends business or ends brotherhood. - Amit Kalantri
Failure is the closes brother to success - Buhari S.I
True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly. - Dillon Burroughs
If you sent speaking pages, they would be like a brother to me. - Radegund of Poitiers
New Labour leader Ed Miliband announces plan to 'make this party slightly less unelectable by 2015'. He added: 'I am Ed, the Almighty One.'Defeated brother David Miliband overheard muttering: 'Now I know how Wayne Christ felt after little Jesus came along. - Andy Zaltzman
[W]orship, if not the child, is at leastthe brother, of fear. - Will Durant
A brother is like gold and a friend is like diamond. If gold cracks you can melt it and make it just like it was before. If a diamond cracks, it can never be like it was before. - Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
I'm an idiot like you said, so whatever you say about me doesn't matter, but you know... Don't you dare point a gun at your own brother! - Kazue Kato
Who’d have thought your screwball brother could have gone so serial-killer fucktwat insane? - Larissa Ione
Death's brother, Sleep. - Virgil
It takes two men to make one brother. - Israel Zangwill
Sylvie wishes the anti-depressants had been around when she was in her early twenties, not only to rescue her from the dark tunnels that came when her brother first got sick, but also to keep her from fucking all those assholes. - Francesca Lia Block
If not to shape me into a better man; a better husband, a better father, a better son, a better brother, a better friend… then all of my experience, success, and education will have been a selfish waste. - Steve Maraboli
The heartache of your brother and your best friend? I mean, Hayes if it's not your business, then whose business is it? - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War
Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature. - Deyth Banger
Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder. - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Brothers? Oh, I hate brothers. My older brother just doesn't know when to die, and my younger brothers seem to do nothing but. - Oscar Wilde
Death cannot be struggled against, brother. It ever arrives, defiant of every hiding place, of every frantic attempt to escape. Death is every mortal's shadow, his true shadow, and time is its servant, spinning that shadow slowly round, until what stretched before one now stretched before him. - Steven Erikson
Assassination is murder with a touch more precision. Brother Sim is precise. - Mark Lawrence
You can’t rid yourself of freedom the way you’d rid yourself of lice, brother. - Bohumil Hrabal
... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be. - Sarah Winman
I want you back here now. I want you next to me now. I cannot believe that my family, your brother, all our friends, and an entire police force can't keep tabs on one twenty-six year old graphic designer who thinks he's fuckin' Batman.--Detective Sam Kage in A Matter Of Time (vol 2 or part 4) - Mary Calmes
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down."--From My Brother Martin, by Christine King Farris - Martin Luther King Jr.
Would we not do well to have the pleasing of God as our motive rather than to try to elevate ourselves above our brother and outdo another? - Ezra Taft Benson
You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name - Charles Dickens
They say fear is the brother of darkness ...if that so ...let walk through it reach when the sun rises . - Befekadu G
At morn we buried Melanippus; as the sun set the maiden Basilo died by her own hand, as she could not endure to lay her brother on the pyre and live; and the house beheld a two-fold woe, and all Cyrene bowed her head, to see the home of happy children made desolate. - allimachus and Lycophron CXLII
I could have drowned…and my brother didn’t even care. - Erica Sehyun Song
He's like a man with a fork, in a world of soup. (about his brother Liam) - Noel Gallagher
The irony of Christianity is that believers get so angry, and self righteous toward other Christians who sin differently than they do. Christianity is like one large fraternity where brother and sisterhood is tested by hazing. - Shannon L. Alder
None of you truly believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself.
It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it. - Edward Cline
In practice it is death that works soseductively behind the image of its brother, sleep - Friedrich Nietzsche
She referred to "home," but it wasn't a place she referred to; it was Jamie, and Louie, and her sister, and even her brother, and the rest of the Europa show people. I guessed maybe that was the key--to figure out who your home was and find a way to keep them with you. - J. J. Howard
The fish will not blame you. You have to do this. I will not look at you and think you're a bad brother. Nobody will. You have to leave because this time you have to save yourself. - Hannah Moskowitz
None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself - Richard Spinos
There’s the wind on the heath, brother; if I could only feel that, I would gladly live for ever. - George Borrow
On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles. - Bertolt Brecht
If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius. - Joseph Addison
And of course, when you see your brother in the toilet bowl...there's a little voice that say, 'I wonder where he would go...'...if it hadn't been for his head... - Bill Cosby
Epictetus say that everything has two handles, one by which it can be borne and one which it cannot. If your brother sins against you, he says, don't take hold of it by the wrong he did you but by the fact that he's your brother. That's how it can be borne. - Anne Tyler
Helping a parent makes you their child, helping a sibling makes you a brother or a sister, helping a friend makes you a good friend, but helping a stranger; that is what makes you human - Evy Michaels
The gypsies believe the bear to be a brother to man because he has the same body beneath his hide, because he drinks beer, because he enjoys music and because he likes to dance. - Ernest Hemingway
And be aware that people fall under one of two categories: they are either your brother and sister in faith, or they are your counterpart in humanity. - Imam Ali bin abi Taleb
I love God, Jesus Christ, my three children, mother, father, brother, sisters, family in general, my pets, my students, and true friends. - Ana Monnar
My brother taught me that there is a difference between being a hater and being ignorant. Being a hater implies you understand the principle in question, while being ignorant implies that you do not understand the principle in question, and therefore, have no right to critique. - Lionel Suggs
Then a begging brother in a tattered brown robe said a blessing on his sword, and a maid kissed his cheek. 'They are for me,' "Why?" He asked Pate. "What am I to them?" "A knight who remembered his vows," the smith said. - George R.R. Martin
Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand. - Victor Hugo
Jump high brother!! So high that if you fall, then people should remark on not how far you fell but how high you jumped - Anubhav Mishra
People usualy use "move on" when their heart broke because of love. Most don't understand when father, mother, sister or brother has died, you might have needed more strength to move on. It was like living with no air. - Glad Munaiseche
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